ASM Microbe Meeting in San Francisco

Several members of the D'Orazio lab attended the annual American Society for Microbiology Microbe Meeting in San Francisco, CA from June 20-24th, 2019.

I arrived a few days early to attend the mSphere Senior Editors meeting.  The journal, which debuted 4 years ago, is doing well with continually increasing numbers of submissions and great metrics in terms of impact.  And the average time to final decision for papers submitted to mSphere is still right around 21 days.  We are all very proud of the author-friendly review experience that ASM Journals, and mSphere in particular, is trying to maintain.  This is a great group of people to work with, and I'm really enjoying the experience of being a Senior Editor at mSphere.

Undergraduates Taylor Senay and Katie Alexander were both authors on a poster presentation entitled "Neurotropic strains of Listeria monocytogenes disseminate to the brain without reaching high titer in the blood."   ASM Microbe is a huge meeting, and can be a bit overwhelming, but I think both students really enjoyed seeing so many aspects of the field of Microbiology represented, as they contemplate their future career paths.